No Small Endeavor

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Exploring what it means to live a good life.

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? How do we not just cope, but flourish? No Small Endeavor, formerly known as Tokens Show, examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp, and investigates the inseparable link between a good life and the pressing questions of society, culture, and the common good. You'll hear from best-selling authors, philosophers, scientists, artists, psychologists, theologians and even the occasional politician—courageous, impassioned people taking seriously the question of how to live a good life.


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NSEB 000 080923: Charles Strobel: Remembering a Life Well Lived, 8/10/2023
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A special re-airing of our 2020 interview with Charles Strobel, Catholic priest and founder of Room In The Inn, who died August 6th, 2023, at the a...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
NSEB 000 080323: Elise Hu: Obsessed With Beauty, 8/3/2023
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What is beauty, and what role should it play in our lives? In this episode, Elise asks the question we’re all thinking: are our culture’s beauty st...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
NSEB 000 072723: Tish Warren: Beyond Left and Right, 7/27/2023
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Does pluralism result in discrimination? Must one choose a political side, either on the Left or the Right? And how can an ordinary life be an exce...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
NSEB 000 072023: Angela Duckworth: Is Grit the Secret to Success?, 7/20/2023
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What do Olympic athletes, world-class artists, elite academics, and successful business executives have in common? Ivy League psychologist and auth...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
NSEB 000 071323: Parker Palmer: Courage, Vocation, and Paradox , 7/13/2023
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“Things didn’t come together vocationally for me until I was 50.” Now 84 years old, Parker Palmer tells about his experience seeking and finding vo...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
NSEB 000 070623: Judith Moskowitz: How to Flourish Amidst Stress, 7/6/2023
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Stress is a silent killer. But on some level, it’s an inevitable feature of life in our culture. So might there be a way for us to flourish when st...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
NSEB 000 062923: Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project, 6/29/2023
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What does it take to be happy? Gretchen Rubin describes her answer after “The Happiness Project,” a year-long process of trying everything from joi...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:58
NSEB 000 062223: Rainn Wilson: Dwight Schrute Talks About Religion, 6/22/2023
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Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica… and spirituality? Rainn Wilson is known for playing Dwight Schrute on the hit TV show The Office. But in this e...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:57
The Power of Sabbath Rest: Judith Shulevitz
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Why would anybody want to practice Sabbath? Judith Shulevitz discusses her book 'The Sabbath World,' which she wrote a over a decade ago to call at...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
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Ending Violence Through Forgiveness: Azim Khamisa
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How do you forgive the man who killed your son? Azim Khamisa tells the story of how he forgave the man who killed his only son Tariq, and how the e...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:56
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Actor and Activist: Martin Sheen
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In this episode, Lee sits down with the former President of the United States… at least, that’s how many listeners may know Martin Sheen, an award-...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Kristin Du Mez Sits with David French (Best Of NSE)
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What happens when one of the country’s most outspoken critics of white male Christian political conservatism sits down with… well, a white male Chr...

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  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
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Burying 250 Friends: Greg Boyle on Community Amidst Gang Violence (Best of NSE)
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How do you reteach love to a community that society has deemed unloveable? Father Greg Boyle, founder of the largest gang-member rehabilitation and...

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  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
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Ben and Jerry's and a Better Capitalism: Ben Cohen and Jay Jakub
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Is business just for making money? Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s, discusses how his company found groundbreaking ways to go against the ...

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  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:55
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The Price of the Pursuit of Pleasure: Anna Lembke and John Mark Comer (Best of NSE)
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Our culture is brimming with endless access to massive hits of dopamine-fueled pleasure, so why are we still so unhappy? Anna Lembke and John Mark ...

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  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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America’s Gun Epidemic: David Hemenway, Chris Hays, Carly Crouch, and Diane Latiker
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After consistently eclipsing all other countries in the number of mass shootings per year, why is America still so obsessed with guns? And in the f...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Healing The Earth: Debra Rienstra
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What does climate change have to do with living a good life? Debra Rienstra discusses why we are only able to flourish when we care for the earth, ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Taking the Beatitudes Seriously: John Dear
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How do you live a good life in a world of war, poverty, racism, violence, hunger, and climate destruction? “To do good means to stop the killing,” ...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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NSE EP 045 - The Power Of Being Known: Curt Thompson
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What do our bodies remember that our minds don’t? And what do our brains want more than chocolate, sex, or a sports car? Psychiatrist and author Dr...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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The Good life - Lessons From The World's Longest Scientific Study Of Happiness: Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
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What does it really take to be happy? Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz discuss the surprising results of what is known as the “World’s Longest Stud...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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New episodes are published weekly, 1 episode a week.

Each episode is made up of 6 segments totalling between 00:52:50 and 00:55:10 in length.

Thursday: 10:00 AM

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